The digest of interesting materials from the world of web development and IT for the last week №94 (January 26 - February 1, 2014)

We offer you a selection with links to useful resources, interesting materials and IT-news

Web development

• User Timing API
• About your experience with DOM rendering system performance
• We try Audio API on an example of writing a visualizer
• Video recordings of the reports of the Happu New Front-End conference: About the frontend
• Bootstrap 3.1.0 is released , plus Bootstrap Upgrader - for upgrading HTML from Bootstrap 2.3 to 3.0
• 9 most common misconceptions about wordpress
• Server Sent Events
• Stream gulp-style data transfer for Grunt, or for another task manager
• We write the generator for Yeoman
• Mastering the console in Developer Tools
• Optimize web font performance
• Optimize Front End Performance for Mobile Devices
• How to use the Meter and Progress elements
• Beginner Rewriting URLs
• Play and Pause buttons for YouTube and Vimeo (using their APIs)
• A Pattern Apart - A Template Apart Template Library
• Create apps with Angular and Node using Yeoman
• Fun: NodeJS Message Board
• How to make a favicon
• Endangered species in the web: image
• Thought when solving problems with the front-end
• Ghost Hunt for Front-end Developer
• Work with allocated memory limits in mobile browsers
• Five best HTML5Hub articles for 2013
• Resistance to offline and caching in web development
• Improving the performance of the main page: remove images (and video), five ways
• grunt-webshot - making screenshots of pages and local html
• Polaroid Card Style Image Gallery

CSS

• Pointer Events comes to Blink and Firefox
• CSS property will-change will speed up rendering
• Practical use of CSS Regions
• Using CSS Regions in Responsive Designs
• Google decided to remove support for CSS Regions in Blink / Chrome
• How to use custom properties of cascading variables in CSS
• Pure CSS parallax
• Very simple off-canvas navigation.
• Normalize.css updated to version 3.0
• The Story of Sanity in the Front-End: Beware of Imports in Sass
• Current generation of CSS3 selectors
• Sass: Mixin or Placeholder?
• Containers occupying the entire height (or greater) (and not flattening)
• Animated Gameboy Build
• Button on / off menu on pure CSS
• Static Analysis for CSS

Javascripts

• We refuse callbacks: Generators in ECMAScript 6
• Sweet.js: Syntax JavaScript Extensions
• JavaScript pattern pseudo-class (pseudo-classical)
• Generating trees on HTML5 Canvas
• JavaScript Decision Trees
• You may not need jQuery
• Why jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library.
• SVGMagic - SVG Fallback on jQuery. Searches for SVG in the code and makes a PNG version of it.
• Psd parser on javascript
• Guide to creating your first application on Ember.js
• Seven Things You Should Know About Web Workers
• AngularJS seo
• Angular foundation
• Embedding Angular into the physical world
• scrollReveal.js - animation during scrolling
• Glide - smooth scrolling for pages
• ScrollStory is a script for creating one-page sites that activates some action when it appears in the viewport.
• Tether - client library for fine-tuning of blocks attached to a specific place
• promisesjs.org - a portal dedicated to the concept of promises
• The art of working with bugs
• Creating modern UI with knockout.js
• Identify browser capabilities using CSS At-Rules
• JavaScriptOO.com - find the library you need
• React.js on pure JS - a detailed explanation for noobs
• The perfect combination: jQuery Adaptive Backgrounds plugin that adds auto-magic to the desired background color for your website images
• fit.js - we fill in another object with one object

Web tools

• sitespeed.io - a tool for analyzing the speed and performance of your site
• A selection of four dozen online tools for web developers of varying degrees of utility
• my-mind.imtqy.com - a tool for creating Mind Maps
• Galileo - search for selected reps on GitHub from the shell
• Tables Generator - a Markdown table generator

news

• Samsung and Google enter into patent agreements
• Microsoft plans to replace SkyDrive with OneDrive , and also intends to change the name of office web services to Office Online
• NSA used Angry Birds and other applications to collect personal data
• Google sells Lenovo's Motorola Mobility , facts, consequences, analysis , reasons, details, consequences
• Impact of Motorola Mobility Absorption by IBM-Lenovo Alliance
• Google and Lenovo deal strengthens Android ecosystem
• Koreans invest $ 1.5 billion in 5G
• COS is based on Android
• Bitcoin startup manager Charlie Schrem arrested in New York
• Mavrodi announced the introduction of its own Bitcoin counterpart
• Yandex search will give preference to pages that do not contain shocking ads.
• Google and Samsung have agreed to clean Android
• In 2013, Android smartphones occupied almost 80% of the market.
• The next Microsoft CEO will be Satya Nadella
• 17% of chips released in 2013 are from Samsung and Apple
• Billion smartphones per year (IDC)
• Google's net profit grew by 22% at the end of 2013 , Apple broke record sales of smartphones , and Amazon’s annual profit increased sevenfold
• Google buys the company DeepMind - the developer of artificial intelligence systems, and Yahoo! has acquired the personal assistant developer Donna
• Facebook hired editors for Paper

Browsers

• Plugin to mitigate high-profile news headlines
• Opera 19 released
• Google has provided a tool to transfer Chrome applications to Android
• What does your browser know about you?
• The porting of new versions of Opera for Linux has been stopped and found inappropriate.
• Decided to integrate the new Australis interface into the Firefox Aurora branch 29
• Meet the Rambler Browser (beta)
• RethinkIE - promotional site for new Internet Explorer browser
• Chrome may soon receive a built-in "OK Google" search , the Chrome extension has been released, allowing you to activate voice search with the "OK Google" command
• Android and iOS will get application support in Chrome browser
• Browser Wars Return
• In some cases, it is more economical to give each of your users a newer computer than to support IE7 on your site.

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• Yin and Yang in web design: black and white sites
• 20 examples of one-page sites
• Sites in purple tones
• fillet.com.br - a site with a non-standard layout and design, with parallax and animation
• Lonitoy - a site with creative graphics, parallax and scrolling in different directions
• northside.dk - stylish monochrome site
• theconference.se - unusual hand-drawn design
• ManuelRueda - an interesting effect when blocks appear
• brightmedia.pl - cool vertical saytik with nice animation and non-annoying sound
• babadum.com - site game with the idea of ​​learning
• getsooshi.com - site and application for Sushi lovers
• ambercreative.co/experiments/apple-store/ - unofficial redesign of the Apple store

Design

• What it really is to be color blind, and how to design for them
• Knitted text in Adobe Illustrator
• More than just typography
• Vintage text effect in Adobe Photoshop
• How colors got their names
• Ten Commandments of Typography
• How to create a logo effect drawn in chalk on a blackboard in Photoshop
• The complete guide to working with video in Photoshop - 3D Animations
• Creating a seamless three-dimensional geometric texture in Photoshop
• Lessons on working with textures and backgrounds in Photoshop
• Pragmatic techniques for improving UX and creating more thoughtful sites
• New design of the application Dark Sky
• Honest slogans
• Guidelines for all major resources
• Sample web designs with hand-drawn illustrations.
• How to curb the power of well-cropped images
• Best Gadgets for Designers
• Glasses created under the impression of letters for Nerdov - fans of typography

A selection of free designer cookies

• List of resources with high-quality images
• Twenty-five sites where you can find free images
• Splitshire: even more free photos for commercial use
• Twitter GUI PSD
• Damn dozen fire brushes for Photoshop for tweet
• Two and a half dozen site templates in PSD format
• Low poly backgrounds in PSD format
• Outline images of Apple devices in PSD format
• Set with UI elements dedicated to real estate / reservations
• Five quality PSD sets with contour icons
• Free Vector Fire
• Over a hundred textures and patterns
• Six round photo-realistic icons from Studio4
• Free Flat Icons 2 from studio4
• Set of 99 beans outline icons
• Set Icons Flat Social Icons
• Margot is a serif typeface designed for use on large screens.
• ADAM - Fontura Sans Serif Capitalized Font
• Friday fonts # 8: from Quirky Nots to V.GER Grotesque
• Four dozen fresh fonts

Demo

• Build your dream building from LEGO right in Google Chrome
• Video from your webcam on a virtual shutter
• Facebook News News app

Entertaining

• What did the “Evil Birds” sing to the NSA (and who else is “knocking” on your smartphone)?
• The most influential persons in the gaming industry in the CIS
• Artificial neurons will help create the first computer brain.
• A promotion with Van Damme brought Volvo $ 170 million
• “Where the devil fights with God” - the Internet through the eyes of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican
• Is it a shame to be a text-maker?
• Video: 3D hologram Turkish premiere appeared before supporters
• The head of "Classmates" can replace Pavel Durov as CEO of "Vkontakte"
• What will happen to domains .COM
• GuessHub - guess the hub by code
• dogeweather.com/ - weather forecast from dogs

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Digest from last week .
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